“pain-killing can . . . conflicting interests”: John R. Boettiger, A Love in Shadow (New York: W. W. Norton, 1978), p. 29.
“We coasted! . . . out for tomorrow!!”: FDR to SDR [1888], in Elliott Roosevelt, ed., F.D.R.: His Personal Letters: Early Years (New York: Duell, Sloan & Pearce, 1947), p. 6.
“Went fishing . . . dozen of minnows”: FDR to SDR, May 18, 1888, ibid., p. 8.
“Then . . . back to his routine”: SDR, My Boy Franklin, pp. 5–6.
“We never subjected . . . kind of handling”: Ibid., p. 33.
“a very nice child”: Ward, Before the Trumpet, p. 145.
stamp collection: Otis L. Graham Jr. and Meghan Robinson Wander, eds., Franklin D. Roosevelt: His Life and Times: An Encyclopedic View (New York: Da Capo, 1990), p. 400.
“the thrill of acquisition”: Walter Benjamin, Illuminations: Essays and Reflections (New York: Schocken, 1969), pp. 60–61.
“in its proper place . . . cares of State”: Winston S. Churchill, The Second World War, Vol. 4, The Hinge of Fate (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1950), p. 712.
“feeling of calm . . . beset him”: Grace Tully, F.D.R. My Boss (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1949), p. 7.
“he lay sprawled . . . two things at once”: SDR, My Boy Franklin, p. 34.
“There was something . . . playful moods”: Frances Perkins, The Roosevelt I Knew (New York: Penguin, 2011), p. 32.
“generally preferred . . . gist right away”: Samuel I. Rosenman, Working with Roosevelt (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1952), p. 17.
“a gentleman . . . boy’s companion”: Ward, Before the Trumpet, p. 173.
“unorthodox” manner: Ibid., p.174.
“when he became . . . issuing country”: Robert H. Jackson, That Man: An Insider’s Portrait of Franklin D. Roosevelt (New York: Oxford University Press, 2003), p. 12.
“almost halfway through”: Rita Halle Kleeman, Gracious Lady: The Life of Sara Delano Roosevelt (New York: D. Appleton-Century, 1935), p. 190.
“The other boys . . . friendships”: Eleanor Roosevelt, This I Remember (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1949), p. 43.
“They knew things he didn’t; he felt left out”: Bess Furman, Washington By-line: The Personal Story of a Newspaper Woman (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1949), p. 272.
“felt hopelessly out of things”: John Gunther, Roosevelt in Retrospect (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1950), p. 173.
“both mentally and physically”: FDR to SDR and James Roosevelt, Sept. 18, 1896, Elliott Roosevelt, ed., F.D.R.: His Personal Letters: Early Years, p. 35.
“getting on . . . with the fellows”: FDR to SDR, Oct. 1, 1896, ibid., p. 42.
“an interloper . . . school activity”: SDR, My Boy Franklin, pp. 39–40.
“Over 30 votes . . . given this year”: FDR to SDR and James Roosevelt, March 24, 1897, Elliott Roosevelt, ed., F.D.R.: His Personal Letters: Early Years, pp. 78–79.
“immensely proud”: SDR, My Boy Franklin, p. 49.
“I have served . . . school-spirit before”: FDR to SDR and James Roosevelt, May 14, 1897, Elliott Roosevelt, ed., F.D.R.: His Personal Letters: Early Years, p. 97.
“There has been . . . slight for success”: Elliott Roosevelt, ed., F.D.R.: His Personal Letters: Early Years, p. 34, note.
“Never, no never! . . . upstanding American”: SDR, My Boy Franklin, p. 4.
“unthinkable”: Ibid., p. 56.
“She was an indulgent . . . his soul his own”: Ward, Before the Trumpet, p. 245.
“The competition was . . . time exhausting”: Philip Boffey, “FDR at Harvard,” Harvard Crimson, Dec. 13, 1957.
“My Dearest . . . quite a strain”: FDR to SDR, April 30, 1901, Elliott Roosevelt, ed., F.D.R.: His Personal Letters: Early Years, p. 456.
“kept the whole . . . for an hour”: FDR to SDR and James Roosevelt, June 4, 1897, ibid., p. 110.
“Young man . . . tomorrow morning”: Boffey, “FDR at Harvard.”
“I don’t want to go . . . out of ourselves”: FDR to SDR, April 30, 1901, Elliott Roosevelt, ed., F.D.R.: His Personal Letters: Early Years, pp. 456–57.
“in one day . . . election and legislature”: Editorial, Harvard Crimson, Oct. 8, 1903, ibid., p. 509.
“read Kant . . . best teacher”: Bernard Asbell, The F.D.R. Memoirs (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1973), p. 85.
“conceited” and “cocky”: Frank Oilbert, “FDR Headed Crimson,” Harvard Crimson, Dec. 11, 1950.
“quick-witted . . . frictionless command”: Rev. W. Russell Bowie, quoted in ibid.
“I know what pain . . . to love you”: FDR to SDR, Dec. 4, 1903, Elliott Roosevelt, ed., F.D.R.: His Personal Letters: Early Years, p. 518.
“a new life”: Eleanor Roosevelt, This Is My Story (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1937), p. 65.
“everything . . . comes in contact with”: Lash, Eleanor and Franklin, p. 74.
“The surest way . . . for others”: Ibid., p. 87.
“I had a great . . . every experience”: ER, This Is My Story, p. 111.
“featherduster”: Arthur Schlesinger Jr., The Age of Roosevelt, Vol. 1: The Crisis of the Old Order, 1919–1933 (New York: Mariner, 2003), p. 323.
“broad human contact”: Nathan Miller, FDR: An Intimate History (New York: Madison Books, 1983), p. 51.
“My God . . . lived like that”: Eleanor Roosevelt and Helen Ferris, Your Teens and Mine (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1961), p. 181.
“he would amount to something someday”: Lash, Eleanor and Franklin, p. 107.
“It is impossible . . . absolutely happy”: Ibid., p. 109.
FDR admiration of TR: Ward, A First-Class Temperament, p. 86.
“We are greatly . . . open before you”: Lash, Eleanor and Franklin, p. 138.
“Well, Franklin . . . name in the family”: Ibid., pp. 138, 139, 141.
“to take advantage” of it: TR to Francis Markue Scott, Oct. 30, 1884, LTR 1:84.
“fell into discussion . . . entirely reasonable”: Harvard Alumni Bulletin, April 28, 1945, pp. 451–52.
Feeling “snakebitten”: Jean Edward Smith, FDR (New York: Random House, 2007), p. 64.
“It was made . . . of the third”: John Mack Interview, Feb. 1, 1949, Oral History Collection, FDRL.
“I’ll take it . . . no hesitation”: Ibid.
“I’ll win the election”: SDR, My Boy Franklin, p. 70.
“not intend to sit still”: Poughkeepsie-Eagle News, Oct. 7, 1910.
“had a distinct . . . available voter”: SDR, My Boy Franklin, pp. 73–74.
“The automobile . . . occasional injuries”: The Franklin D. Roosevelt Collector (May 1949), p. 4.
designed his own posters and buttons . . . direct contact with people: Smith, FDR, p. 66.
“spoke slowly . . . never go on”: ER, This Is My Story, p. 167.
“that smile of his . . . as a friend”: Tom Leonard Interview, Jan. 11, 1949, Oral History Collection, FDRL.
“but none of his . . . campaign of 1910”: The FDR Collector (May 1949), p. 3.
“be a real . . . chance to fill it”: Ward, A First-Class Temperament, p. 122.
“I know I’m no orator . . . like to hear”: Frank Freidel, Franklin D. Roosevelt: The Apprenticeship (Boston: Little, Brown, 1952), p. 92.
winning by the largest margin: Poughkeepsie Eagle-News, Nov. 19, 1910.
“I never had . . . the bivouac fire”: NYT, Jan. 22, 1911.
“disagreeable”: “Notable New Yorkers,” Reminiscences of Frances Perkins (1951–1955), Part 1, Session 1, p. 240, OHRO/CUL.
“I can still see . . . an awfully mean cuss”: Perkins, The Roosevelt I Knew, p. 11.
“O’Gorman . . . better than Sheehan”: Edmund R. Terry, “The Insurgents at Albany,” The Independent (July–September 1911), p. 115.
“converted defeat . . . taken an upward step”: Burns and Dunn, The Three Roosevelts, p. 121.
“How would I like it . . . would love to hold”: Carroll Kilpatrick, Roosevelt and Daniels, a Friendship
in Politics (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1952), p. xii.
“always thrilled to tales of the sea”: SDR, My Boy Franklin, p. 30.
“man-to-man”. . . career would demand: Ward, A First-Class Temperament, p. 173.
collection of . . . naval history: Graham and Wander, eds., Franklin D. Roosevelt, p. 280.
“It is interesting . . . to the full”: TR to FDR, LTR, 7:714.
“an old fuddy duddy”: Gunther, Roosevelt in Retrospect, p. 211.
“was too damn slow for words”: Blaine Taylor, “Rehearsal of Glory: FDR as Assist. Sec. of the U.S. Navy,” Sea Classics 33, no. 7 (July 2000).
“You should be . . . should resign”: James Tertius de Kay, Roosevelt’s Navy: The Education of a Warrior President, 1882–1920 (New York: Pegasus, 2012), p. 55.
FDR duties: Ibid., p. 53.
“A man with a flashing mind . . . complicated subjects”: Ernest K. Lindley, Franklin D. Roosevelt: A Career in Progressive Democracy (Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1931), p. 124.
“dead wood”: Ibid., p. 117.
“second to none”: Rex W. Tugwell, The Democratic Roosevelt (Baltimore: Penguin, 1957), p. 100.
“economizer”: Lindley, Franklin D. Roosevelt, p. 126.
“It is only a big man . . . handled yourself”: Freidel, Franklin D. Roosevelt: The Apprenticeship, pp. 322–23.
“gnome-like”: ER, This Is My Story, p. 192.
“a singed cat”: James Tobin, The Man He Became (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2013), p. 55.
“luminous eyes”: Lela Stiles, The Man behind Roosevelt: The Story of Louis McHenry Howe (New York: World, 1954), p. 24.
seldom spent more than a couple days apart: Ward, A First-Class Temperament, p. 199.
“deflate Roosevelt’s pride, prod his negligence”: Alfred B. Rollins Jr., Roosevelt and Howe (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1962), p. 75.
“He was a great trial and error guy”: Taylor, “Rehearsal of Glory: FDR as Assist. Sec. of the U.S. Navy.”
“a suitable bond” . . . World War II: Kilpatrick, Roosevelt and Daniels, p. 31.
“to go to jail for 999 years”: Gunther, Roosevelt in Retrospect, p. 211.
“with a twinkle . . . with the Army”: Lindley, Franklin D. Roosevelt, p. 140.
“We want to get . . . talk things over”: Stanley Weintraub, Young Mr. Roosevelt: FDR’s Introduction to War, Politics, and Life (New York: Da Capo, 2013), p. 25.
“My dear chief . . . about to skyrocket”: Elliott Roosevelt, ed., F.D.R.: His Personal Letters: 1905–1928 (New York: Duell, Sloan & Pearce, 1947), Vol. 2, p. 489.
FDR not listed as one of thirty-nine vice presidential candidates: Gunther, Roosevelt in Retrospect, p. 216.
“Return to normalcy”: Stiles, The Man behind Roosevelt, p. 68.
“had everything . . . nothing to lose”: Frank Freidel, Franklin D. Roosevelt: The Ordeal (Boston: Little, Brown, 1954), p. 70.
“We really had trouble . . . what they’re hiring”: Stiles, The Man behind Roosevelt, p. 70.
“once he met a man . . . circumstances”: Linda Lotridge Levin, The Making of FDR: The Story of Stephen Early, America’s First Modern Press Secretary (New York: Prometheus, 2008), p. 61.
eight hundred speeches: Gunther, Roosevelt in Retrospect, p. 216.
“the driest subjects from seeming heavy”: Freidel, Franklin D. Roosevelt: The Ordeal, p. 77.
“it is becoming almost impossible . . . I yank his coattails!”: Julie M. Fenster, FDR’s Shadow: Louis Howe, the Force That Shaped Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt (New York: St. Martin’s Griffin, 2009), p. 121.
“had something . . . good constitution”: Freidel, Franklin D. Roosevelt: The Ordeal, p. 81.
“A darn good sail”: Levin, The Making of FDR, p. 59.
“Curiously enough . . . during the campaign”: Freidel, FDR: The Ordeal, p. 90.
“a fraternity in spirit”: Fenster, FDR’s Shadow, p. 122.
“Cuff-Links Club”: Ogden [Utah] Standard-Examiner, May 16, 1934.
“At that very first meeting . . . President of the United States”: NYT, Nov. 27, 1932.
CHAPTER FOUR
Lyndon: “A steam engine in pants”
daylong “speaking”: Robert Caro, The Years of Lyndon Johnson: The Path to Power (New York: Vintage, 1990), p. 202.
vandoos: Tarbell, The Early Life of Abraham Lincoln, p. 155.
“I saw coming . . . behalf of Pat Neff”: Welly Hopkins Interview, May 11, 1965, LBJOH.
“I’m a prairie dog lawyer”: Robert Dallek, Lone Star Rising: Lyndon Johnson and His Times, 1908–1960 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1991), p. 86.
“so wrapped . . . pleasantly received”: Hopkins Interview, May 11, 1965, LBJOH.
“the hit of the Henly picnic”: Dallek, Lone Star Rising, p. 87.
LBJ listening to his father and political cronies: DKG, LJAD, p. 35.
“I loved going . . . what was going on”: The author’s conversations with LBJ during time spent at the LBJ ranch between 1968 and 1971 (DKG/LBJ Conversations) and quoted extensively in DKG, LJAD.
“If you can’t come . . . no business in politics”: Alfred Steinberg, Sam Johnson’s Boy: A Close-up of the President from Texas (New York: Macmillan, 1968), p. 26.
“was very friendly . . . doing something nice”: Dallek, Lone Star Rising, p. 46.
“We’ve got to . . . we’re here for”: Caro, The Path to Power, p. 82.
“They walked the same . . . talked to you”: Ibid., p. 76.
Cecil Maddox’s barbershop: Ibid., p. 71.
“We drove in the Model T . . . could go on forever”: DKG/LBJ Conversations.
“My mother . . . worst year of her life”: Ibid.
“a two-story . . . broad walks”: Rebekah Baines Johnson, A Family Album (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1965), p. 29.
“dashing and dynamic”: Dallek, Lone Star Rising, p. 27.
“whirlwind courtship”: Rebekah Baines Johnson, A Family Album, p. 25.
“the problem of adjustment . . . new way of life”: Ibid., p. 30.
“piled high”: Dallek, Lone Star Rising, p. 28.
“Then I came along . . . she never did”: DKG/LBJ Conversations.
“never seen such a friendly baby”: Dallek, Lone Star Rising, p. 32.
“I remember playing . . . in the world”: Ibid.
“For days after . . . my father and sisters”: Ibid.
the Johnson “freeze-out”: DKG, LJAD, p. 25.
“perfect escape . . . life imaginable”: DKG/LBJ Conversations.
“very brilliant . . . faster than they did”: Caro, The Path to Power, p. 71.
“smothered . . . force feedings”: Larry King, “Bringing up Lyndon,” Texas Monthly, January 1976, http://www.texasmonthly.com/issue/january-1976.
“Is it true?” . . . history or government: Time, May 21, 1965.
“the self-confidence . . . his intellectual equal”: Donald, Lincoln, p. 32.
“My daddy . . . I never could”: DKG/LBJ Conversations.
“The way you get ahead . . . Evans, for example”: Alfred B. Johnson “Boody,” quoted in Merle Miller, Lyndon: An Oral Biography (New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1980), p. 28.
“there was only . . . for him directly”: DKG/LBJ Conversations.
“kowtowing . . . brown nosing”: Mylton Kennedy, quoted in Caro, The Path to Power, p. 153.
“ruthless”: Steinberg, Sam Johnson’s Boy, p. 41.
“to cut your throat . . . you wanted”: Helen Hofheinz, in Caro, The Path to Power, p. 194.
“didn’t just dislike . . . despised him”: Henry Kyle, in ibid., p. 196.
“Ambition is . . . pressing forward”: LBJ, College Star, June 19, 1929, quoted in William C. Pool, Emmie Craddock, and David E. Conrad, Lyndon Baines Johnson: The Formative Years (San Marcos: Southwest Texas State College Press, 1965), pp. 131–32.
“the somebody . . . wa
nted to be”: Caro, The Path to Power, p. 170.
“My students were poor . . . pain of prejudice”: LBJ, “Presidential News Conference,” March 13, 1965, PPP, 1:286.
“He respected . . . do your work”: Time, May 21, 1965, p. 60.
“down-to-earth and friendly”: They Remember LBJ at Cotulla,” South Carolina News (Florence, S.C.), Jan. 27, 1964, p. 12.
“he didn’t give . . . a blur”: Dallek, Lone Star Rising, p. 79.
“I was determined . . . care of itself”: DKG/LBJ Conversations.
“I can still see . . . who sat in my class”: Caro, The Path to Power, p. 170.
“Even in that day . . . political lore”: Hopkins Interview, May 11, 1965, LBJOH.
“gifted with a very . . . greet the public”: Welly Hopkins, quoted in Caro, The Path to Power, p. 203.
“We worked . . . I’d be elected”: Hopkins Interview, May 11, 1965, LBJOH.
“wonder kid . . . in the area”: Steinberg, Sam Johnson’s Boy, p. 53.
“won anything”: Gene Latimer Interview, Oct. 5, 1979, LBJOH.
“rather vigorous . . . extremely aggressive”: Luther Jones Interview, June 1, 1969, LBJOH.
“could get people . . . think of doing”: Latimer Interview, Oct. 5, 1979, LBJOH.
“a human dynamo . . . a steam engine in pants”: Jones Interview, June 13, 1969, LBJOH.
“He had a variety . . . another one in the eye”: Latimer Interview, Oct. 5, 1979, LBJOH.
“we were . . . football team”: Latimer Interview, Oct. 5, 1979, LBJOH.
“All that day . . . was behind me”: DKG/LBJ Conversations.
“I would not say . . . Power I mean”: LBJ, quoted in Merle Miller, Lyndon, p. 38.
“This skinny boy . . . here twenty years”: Arthur Perry, in Booth Moody, The Lyndon Johnson Story (New York: Avon, 1964), p. 38.
“a hard man . . . way he wanted it”: Jones Interview, June 13, 1969, LBJOH.
“We’ve been relaxing . . . your own time?”: Dallek, Lone Star Rising, p. 101.
“a bluff and good” . . . delighted: Jones Interview, June 13, 1969, LBJOH.
“every problem had a solution”: Caro, The Path to Power, p. 235.
“extraordinarily direct . . . of his capabilities”: Eric F. Goldman, The Tragedy of Lyndon Johnson (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1969), p. 343.
“very, very . . . wavy hair”: Caro, The Path to Power, p. 299.